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Re: [ietf-dkim] Statistics about DKIM and MIME

2010-10-25 09:15:46
On 10/25/10 1:31 PM, Rolf E. Sonneveld wrote:
Hi, Murray,

On 10/25/10 6:21 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:

OpenDKIM now has enough data to make some interesting observations about signatures and MIME.

As far as MIME encodings go (only the "outermost" encoding was counted), there was a pretty common theme:

binary failed 4% of the time

quoted-printable failed 4% of the time

7bit failed 7.7% of the time

base64 failed 7.8% of the time

8bit failed 14% of the time

16bit (?!) never failed (though there was only one attempt)

I expected 8bit to fail more for some reason.


Interesting figures. Especially the 16bit ;-)

As far as MIME parts go (again, only the "outermost" MIME type was counted), most of them have about a 90-93% survival rate which is about in line with general signature survival rates.


This still leaves the question open whether there is any relation between MIME labelling and -content transfer encoding, or none at all.

Clarification: it was my intention to say:

[...] between MIME labelling and -content transfer encoding on one side, and DKIM signature 'survival' on the other side. Or no relationship at all.

/rolf
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